I love that the opening track, "My Old Ways", on Tame Impala's [Tape Op#95] new album, Deadbeat, starts with what appears to be a rough...
Craig Schumacher, one of the country's best engineer/producers and our intrepid gear reviewer and former head of TapeOpCon has been dealing with head and neck cancer recently. He's doing better after treatment but needs help catching up on bills and reduced income from his studio. Help him out here.
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Nashville-based Producer/Artist Russell Wolff has recently started a project to write and record a song a day for a year. An undertaking for sure. I lost my little sister to Stage IV cancer in 2009, so this is an issue close to my world. Let's help others out. -Larry Crane
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